It was 10.30pm
when sporadic gunshots started ringing out in the sky over the village of Kankara in Katsina, northern Nigeria.
Farmer Garba Abubakar was with his wife and six of his 15 children, who were still awake when the shooting started.
By morning, Mr Abubaker, and scores of parents like him, were beside themselves with grief: his son Jafar, 14, who was staying at the nearby boarding school, had been kidnapped, almost certainly by Boko Haram, one of the most violent ISIS-linked groups in the world.
Three hundred and thirty three other children are still missing.
As dawn came, Mr Abubaker and other parents thronged anxiously to the schoolyard after hearing about the abduction, and later provided the school management with names, photos and other information that could help in the search of the missing school boys.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Six years after the abduction of 276 schoolgirls ignited the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign, Nigeria is again reeling from a mass kidnapping, this time of more than 300 boys.
Boko Haram claims the kidnapping of more than 300 boys in Nigeria
Abubakar Shekau, the group s leader, said in an audio message that militants stormed the school to discourage Western education.
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DAKAR, Senegal – Boko Haram asserted responsibility Tuesday for laying siege to a secondary school in northwestern Nigeria and abducting more than 300 boys, marking a striking leap from the extremist group’s usual area of operation.
Hundreds of gunmen on motorbikes surrounded a boarding school in Katsina state Friday night and opened fire on police, witnesses said, before rounding up students and dragging them into the woods.